How to Manage Playlists in the Windows 8.1 Metro Xbox Music App

The Metro Xbox Music app has a rudimentary playlist capability. A playlist is just a list of songs that the app is supposed to play in order.

Remarkably, any playlist that you create in a different app, such as Windows Media Player or VLC, works great in the Metro Xbox Music app. You just have to make sure you put the WPL file — the file that contains the playlist — in your Music library.

Unfortunately, the Metro Xbox Video app doesn’t support playlists. If you have kids in the household, you know how useful video playlists can be. Oh, well. YouTube still lets you create and maintain video playlists — and it doesn’t cost anything. My Roku does better.

You can create a playlist in the Metro Xbox Music app in several ways. Here’s the easiest: